Nobody’s Fault But Mine: An Empirical Analysis of Ideology in State Supreme Court Abortion Cases

• In Event: Standing ePanel: Courts and Public Policy

Brief Overview

Utilizing a combined legal/extra-legal model of judicial decision-making, I analyze 879 votes by judges on 47 of 50 U.S. state supreme courts in 130 abortion cases to determine whether those judges decide abortion cases based on partisan ideology.

Author

• Ben McGraw, University of Michigan